# Amud: Zmanim, Mikvah, Davening — Yomi Limudim, Luach, compass > Yomi Limudim, Luach, compass (iPhone/iPad app by STUART DAVIS.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amud-zmanim-mikvah-davening/id6790841388 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [STUART DAVIS](https://appshunter.io/developer/6788314943) - Category: Reference, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.0 · 8 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-22 - Data updated: 2026-09-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amud-zmanim-mikvah-davening/id6790841388/reviews.md ## What is Amud? Zmanim for where you are, a private mikvah calendar, and what is different about today's davening. Your limud, simchas and yahrzeits, names to daven for, which way to face. Amud works out the Jewish day for you, and nothing leaves your phone. It reads the date and where you are standing, and answers the questions that depend on both. No sign-in, and it works with no signal. ZMANIM FOR WHERE YOU ARE Every row leads with what you DO, the zman's name beside it: earliest tallis and tefillin, last Krias Shema, last Shacharis, Mincha, earliest Maariv, shkia, nacht, candles, fasts, the end of Shabbos and Rabbeinu Tam. Alos, Misheyakir and Plag each have a choice of shitah, and where your kehilla publishes its own luach you can follow that. A PRIVATE MIKVAH CALENDAR Off by default, behind one quiet row in Settings. It keeps the cycle: the expected days each month and which onah, said out loud with the hours it runs; the hefsek taharah and its window; the seven clean days with morning and afternoon ticks; the mikvah night and its checklist. Record a flow by date, time and town and it works out the halachic day and onah. Already part-way through? Enter this period and the bedikos you have done, and it picks up from there. Reminders for every step, expecting and after-birth modes, a kallah's first-time halachos, paste-in history, a month view, and a printable year for a rav. Anything with a machlokes says ask your rav. One tap hides the card, and it stays on your phone. WHAT IS DIFFERENT TODAY Over fifty things a year, in the order you daven them, marked SAY, SKIP or ADD in plain English with the Hebrew beside it. Tachanun, Hallel full or half, Ya'aleh V'yavo, Al HaNisim, Mashiv HaRuach and Morid HaTal, V'sein Tal U'Matar with the exact changeover night, Sefiras HaOmer, Selichos, Avinu Malkeinu, fasts and Aneinu, Yizkor, Shabbos Mevorchim with the molad and Kiddush Levana. No shul knowledge assumed. YOUR LIMUD, AND YOUR OWN SEDER Twenty-one cycles, each tracking on its own with missed days and your siyum date: Daf Yomi, Amud Yomi, Dirshu Mishnah Berurah, Yerushalmi, Mishnah Yomi, Nach Yomi and more. Shnayim Mikra too. Or name your own seder in any of eleven sefarim: say where you are up to rather than when you began, tick off what you finished years ago, and set a pace or a finishing date. WHICH WAY TO DAVEN A live compass to Har HaBayis, with the words to go with it. It knows whether you are in chutz la'aretz, in Eretz Yisroel or in Yerushalayim and says the right thing for each. Three shitos for the bearing. A MIRROR FOR THE SHEL ROSH The front camera, mirrored and full screen, with two circles for your eyes and a line running up between them, corrected for the angle you hold the phone at. It never tells you it is right: it cannot see the kesher or the retzuos, and a pass mark would be ruling on what it cannot see. No face is recognised and nothing is stored. THE CHOILIM LIST Names to daven for, behind a heart at the top, each exactly as you type it. The Yehi Ratzon after Tehillim is worded around your names, with English letters for anyone who needs them. Off by default. SIMCHAS AND YAHRZEITS Hebrew birthdays, bar and bas mitzvah with its parsha, anniversaries and yahrzeits, from the ordinary date you know. Or paste in a list. ALSO Chanukah lighting to your shitah, and how long the oil must last. The four Purim windows, the Seder's two deadlines, every Yom Tov and fast ahead. Ten optional reminders, all off until you turn them on. The wait between meat and dairy, six shitos. Widgets and Lock Screen countdowns. Ashkenaz, Sefard, Chabad and Edot HaMizrach: the nusach changes the answers, not only the spelling. A printable Shabbos and Yom Tov briefing. Tikkun Chatzos. Back up everything to one file you own. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE No account, nothing collected, no advertising. Where communities genuinely differ, an item is marked minhag. Amud is an aid, not a posek. For a final ruling, ask your rov. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0.1 — 2026-09-07 THE EXPECTING CARD Telling the mikvah calendar you are expecting used to look as though nothing had happened. The due dates were there, but they only appeared from three months, when the separation days pause - so for the first three months the card sat unchanged and the tap seemed to have been ignored. The card now leads with it from the moment you confirm. Which week you are in, the Jewish due date and the secular one, and then the buttons. Your expected days are untouched and still sit underneath, because they stay fully in force for those first three months. BOTH DUE DATES, WORKED OUT FOR YOU The popup no longer asks you to go and find two dates. It opens with the mikvah night already filled in from your record and the secular due date already counted from your last period, shows you what each one gives you, and asks you to confirm or change it. If you had never ticked the mikvah night - and the app stops asking once a mikvah night has passed cleanly, because it assumes you went - there was previously nothing to fill in and no Jewish due date at all. It now uses that night. The Jewish due date shows the Hebrew date, the same date in English, and the civil days it actually falls on, so a Hebrew date never has to be converted in your head. And it says where the number comes from: a birth comes 271 to 273 days after the mikvah night, Gemara Niddah 38b, with the gematria behind it spelled out in the halachos sheet. "I gave birth" is now on the card during the whole pregnancy, not only after three months. FIXED The choilim list at the bottom of the home screen sat tight up against the simchas above it, close enough to read as part of that card. It now has the same gap as the sections above it. ### 2.0.0 — 2026-09-05 AMUD 2.0 Amud began as a davening aid: what to say today, and when. It has not been only that for a long time, and the version number is here to say so out loud. THE MIKVAH CALENDAR There is a private mikvah calendar in this app. It has been here for months, off by default, behind one quiet row in Settings, and a great many people who open Amud every single day have never seen it. It keeps the whole cycle. The expected days each month and which onah, with the hours it runs. The hefsek taharah and its window. The seven clean days, with morning and afternoon ticks. The mikvah night and its preparation checklist. Record a flow by date, time and town and it works out the halachic day and the onah itself. Reminders for every step, an expecting mode, after-birth tracking, a kallah's first-time halachos, and paste-in history from a paper calendar. A month view, and a printable year to take to a rav. It is off until it is turned on, one tap hides the card, it never appears on a printed sheet, and everything stays on the phone it was entered on. Anything with a machlokes says ask your rav. If that is something kept on paper in your house, it is worth showing to whoever keeps it. SHNAYIM MIKRA ON A DOUBLE PARSHA A week like Matos-Masei used to come up as fourteen aliyos: seven of one parsha, then seven of the other. That is not what is read. The tzibbur reads one seven-aliyah division over the whole span, and now so does Amud, for all seven pairs. It matters more than it sounds: revi'i of Matos-Masei runs from Bamidbar 32:20 straight through 33:49, crossing from one parsha into the next, so the seams genuinely sit elsewhere. Seven rows, the real ranges, and the week counts as seven. If you had already ticked aliyos on a double week, they are cleared once, because the numbers used to mean something different and marks that survived would have pointed at pesukim you never read. THE ONOS NOW SAY WHICH HALF OF THE DAY, AND WHEN THEY RUN An expected day used to read "Shabbos, 13 Elul", which left the question it existed to answer: the daytime, or the night? A day onah now says so, and every row carries the window it actually covers, netz to shkia for a day onah and shkia to netz for a night one. Yom HaChodesh, Onah Beinonis and day 31 all say it. Tap the day in the month view and the times are there too. WIDGETS IN THREE SIZES Press and hold the widget and drag its corner. A small square, a wide tile and a tall one, each showing what fits: three changes on the small, four on the wide, six plus your limudim on the tall. FIXED A custom schedule over Mishnayos let you pick a perek that does not exist. Berachos has nine and the picker went to fifty-seven, then quietly snapped you back to the last real one with nothing said. The perek now stops at the real count, and the mishnah beside it stops at the number that perek holds. Zmanim could be worked out in the wrong time zone, hours out, when a saved place carried coordinates without a time zone beside it. The commonest way in was a backup carried between countries. Every place now stores its zone, and if the two ever disagree the app says so on the Location line instead of showing you a sunrise at midnight. A refused notification permission used to un-tick the switch and say nothing at all, so it read as broken rather than blocked. It now says which it is, and what to do about it. ON GETAMUD.COM The same round, plus: the rows under "Coming up" jump to that day when you tap them; Settings is in sections you can open and close instead of one very long scroll; a holiday name wraps instead of being cut off mid-word; saving a date says that it saved; and Save stays greyed until the date has a name. ### 1.45.0 — 2026-09-02 A CALENDAR FOR THE TAHARAH TRACKER The tracker now has a second way to look at the same record: a full month, opened from the calendar button on the card. The card and its list are exactly as they were - nothing has moved. Every square carries both dates, the English and the Hebrew, because the halacha runs on one and your week runs on the other. Coloured dots mark what each day holds: a flow, a stain, the hefsek taharah, each of the seven clean days (numbered, so you can see at a glance which day you are on), the mikvah night, and the days coming up that need separating. Months page back as far as your record goes, so a cycle from last spring is one swipe away. Tap any day and it tells you what it holds and what you can add to it - a past flow or stain, the hefsek, a bedika you did, the mikvah night. Only what actually makes sense on that date is offered, and anything that does not is shown greyed with the reason: "The earliest mikvah night in this cycle is 31 Aug." Nothing can be recorded on a day that has not happened yet. YOUR OWN SEDER, IN ELEVEN SEFARIM Personal learning schedules used to offer Gemara Bavli, Mishnayos, or a sefer you named yourself. They now offer: Gemara Bavli - Mishnayos - Yerushalmi, Vilna - Yerushalmi, ArtScroll (Schottenstein) - Nach - Tanach - Tehillim - Rambam (Mishneh Torah) - Sefer HaMitzvos - Likutei Moharan - Likutei Halachos - and still any other sefer you name yourself. Each one is picked apart the way it is actually learned: the Yerushalmi by the daf, Nach and Tanach by the perek, the Rambam by its own sets of halachos inside its fourteen sefarim, Sefer HaMitzvos by the mitzvah. You can set your goal as the whole thing, one part of it (a seder of Shas, a sefer of the Rambam, Neviim or Kesuvim) or a single masechta, and mark off what you had already finished before you started - it still counts once, however you get there. Every length comes from the same tables the daily cycles are calculated from, so your own seder can never disagree with the daily card about how long a masechta is: 1,554 dapim in the Vilna Yerushalmi, 2,094 in the ArtScroll, 742 perakim of Nach, 929 of Tanach, 1,017 of the Rambam. SMOOTHER A pass over everything that ran while a finger was on the glass. The pinned header no longer rebuilds itself on every frame of a scroll; the stored lists - your kept dates, the choilim list, the taharah record - are read once instead of being decoded again on every tap in Settings; and the screens that were doing a piece of real work between keystrokes now do it out of the way. Nothing looks different. It should just feel like nothing is in the way. FIXED The Choilim list showed on the home screen the day you added it and was gone the next time the app opened. The list itself was always safe - it was the block at the foot of the home screen that stopped drawing. It now stays. The Gemara picker could not reach the last amud of Tamid. A data-loss hole in personal schedules is closed. If the stored schedules ever became unreadable, creating one more would have replaced the lot, and a backup taken then would have written the emptiness over your only other copy. Both are now refused outright, so a damaged file can never turn into a lost one. ### 1.44.0 — 2026-08-30 THE ARTSCROLL YERUSHALMI - A NEW LIMUD The Schottenstein Yerushalmi is paginated to its own volumes, so it needs a luach of its own, and Amud now carries it: 2,094 dapim over five years and nine months, opening at Berachos 1 and finishing at Niddah 11. Unlike the Vilna cycle, and unlike the Bavli Daf Yomi, it skips nothing at all - there is a daf on Yom Kippur and a daf on Tisha B'Av. Switch it on in Settings, alongside the Vilna cycle, which is untouched and is now named so the two can be told apart. Masechta names follow your nusach, like everywhere else in Amud. THE CHOILIM LIST ON THE HOME SCREEN The list now also sits at the foot of the home screen, under simchas and yahrzeits, so the names are in front of you on the way past instead of waiting behind a tap. The Yehi Ratzon is folded away underneath, one tap from open. The heart at the top still opens the full list for adding and removing, and a switch in Settings turns the home-screen block off again if you would rather it were not there. The Yehi Ratzon is also right-justified now, the way Hebrew should sit. JOINING THE TAHARAH TRACKER PART-WAY THROUGH You should not have to wait for the next flow before the tracker is any use to you. There is now a "Set where I am up to now" screen, in Settings and in the card's own menu, and it can be opened at any time - not only on the day the tracker is first switched on. It asks what you actually know. When this period started, and in which onah. When it stopped. Whether the hefsek taharah has been made and on which day, whether it came out clean, and whether the moich dochuk was done. Then the seven clean days appear as tick boxes, and you tick the bedikos you have really done. They start empty on purpose - the app will not write down a bedika you did not make - and there is a "Tick them all" for anyone who did do them all. If you have already been to the mikvah for this cycle, say so, and it closes properly instead of counting for ever. Every answer is checked as you give it. A hefsek dated earlier than your own day count allows is refused, and the earliest day it could have been is named. A mikvah night before the seven days are up is refused too. Nothing is saved until you press Save, and everything you enter can be edited afterwards from History, exactly as if you had entered it day by day. PASTING IN A LIST NOW TELLS YOU HOW Importing birthdays or yahrzeits explained itself in one small line under the box, which is no use to anyone who has already pasted. It now says it plainly above the box, before you paste: each line is the name, the date, and boy or girl, with a comma between each part - and every way you are allowed to write the date, whether 14/3/2019, 14 March 2019, 2019-03-14, or a Hebrew date like 2 Av 5782. FIXED Importing a list of past periods into the Taharah history opened the window and then closed it again on the spot, so there was no way in. It stays open now. "Add a past period" on the same screen was caught by the same fault and is fixed with it. ### 1.43.0 — 2026-08-30 Track your own learning, not only the tzibbur's. Amud has always shown you what the tzibbur is learning today - Daf Yomi, Oraysa, Mishnah Yomi and the rest, the same daf for everyone, moving on its own at midnight. This version adds the other kind: your own seder, at your own pace, which does not move until you say you have learned. You name it. You choose what: a masechta of Gemara, a seder, the whole Shas, all of Mishnayos - an amud or a daf at a time, a mishnah or a perek at a time. Or any other sefer at all: name it, say how many parts it has, and say what one part is called. Then you say where you are up to. Not what date you started - where you are up to. Pick the masechta and the daf. And if you have already finished masechtos over the years, in whatever order life put them in, tick them. A man who has learned twenty masechtos is not eight per cent through Shas, and the app should not tell him he is. You set either a pace or a finishing date, and Amud works out the other one. An amud a day tells you when your siyum falls. A date before your son's bar mitzvah tells you how many a day it will take. It counts only the days you actually learn on - if you do not keep this seder on Shabbos, or on Yom Tov, or on a fast, say so, and the finishing date is a real one. Every day it shows where you are up to and a button. Tap it when you have learned. Tap it again for another amud - three dapim on a Sunday is a bigger day, not three days. Tapped by mistake, tap Undo. There is no "mark missed" here and there never will be: no day of your own seder ever carried an obligation to learn a particular thing, so there is nothing to be guilty about. What it does say, quietly, is how far ahead of or behind your own stated pace you are, and when you will finish at this rate. Optionally, one reminder a day for a schedule you have not yet marked. Also in this version, a zmanim accuracy round. Three fixes, all of them things you would only notice by checking the times against each other - which is exactly why they needed finding. Rabbeinu Tam is never the earlier time any more. Rabbeinu Tam is a fixed 72 minutes after shkia. The ordinary end of Shabbos is measured by how far the sun has sunk. In a British high summer the sun sets so shallowly that the 72 minutes arrived FIRST, so the stricter time was printed earlier than the ordinary one - 32 Shabbosos a year in London, and up to 23 minutes out in the north of England. Amud now follows the published rule for exactly this case: on those nights only, Rabbeinu Tam is eight minutes after the ordinary time. Every other night of the year is unchanged, and this never arose in New York or in Eretz Yisroel. The evening zmanim now read in clock order. From September to March, Maariv may be davened from nightfall - the same moment as nacht. The list was showing that time twice, once above Shekia and once below it, so the card read 7:56, then 7:08, then 7:56 again. Nightfall is now one line: "Maariv and Krias Shema from here", sitting under Shekia where it belongs. In the summer, when Maariv starts from plag, nothing has moved. The next-zman highlight follows the clock. On those same evenings it was jumping ahead to Maariv while Shekia was still to come. It now counts down to Shekia first. The Rabbeinu Tam note names the shitah instead of showing a sum. The old wording invited you to subtract, and because Shekia is shown rounded down and Rabbeinu Tam rounded up - the careful direction for each - the answer came out a minute wide. No zman moved by a second beyond the three fixes above. ## More apps by STUART DAVIS - [Otzar Breslov](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/otzar-breslov/id6788314941) All apps by STUART DAVIS: https://appshunter.io/developer/6788314943 ## Related topics [shtet qytet](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/shtet-qytet) · [urim and thummim](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/urim-and-thummim) · [my srjc](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/my-srjc) · [misaskim shiva minyanim](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/misaskim-shiva-minyanim) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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